The life of a factory manager has become increasingly difficult in recent years. Managing a plant at peak efficiency levels requires a complex balancing of many factors. Intricate factory floor plans, large numbers of products and variants and frequent and unexpected events must be managed correctly in order to minimize their effect on production times, delivery dates and costs. It is a real challenge to keep all production processes synchronized.

Xavo and iFactory recently published and article in the Tobacco Reporter magazine about the benefits of Real-time scheduling (with true optimization) in the tobacco industry.

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As seen in Tobacco Reporter, Issue August 2010